Anne Garefino
American film and television producer (born 1959)
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Anne Garefino (born July 1, 1959) is an American film and television producer.[1] She is the co-executive producer (with Trey Parker and Matt Stone) of the long-running series South Park, and the co-executive producer of the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon (with Scott Rudin).[2] Continuing her work on South Park, she was the executive producer of the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. She also was the executive producer of the film Team America: World Police. She is a practicing Catholic.[3]
About
Raised in Lambertville, New Jersey, she graduated from Boston College, where she majored in finance.[4] She received her MFA at the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles in 1988.[5]
Awards
Garefino has been nominated for thirteen and won five Primetime Emmy Awards for her work on South Park,[6] and won both a Tony Award[7] and a Grammy Award for her work on The Book of Mormon.[8] She is an Oscar away from achieving EGOT status.[9] In 2014 she won the American Film Institute's Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal.[5]
